Gamble at the Casino

Veeja asks for help with obtaining some Dark Side drugs she plans to use in a special ritual to track down the Night Sisters. Tia, Dr. Turan, Bef’fo, Lexro, and Sabbath agree to help. They go to a casino where Tia knows someone who may be able to help - a guy named Cradium she knows from back when they were both teenagers. It appears that Sabbath has developed a crush on Tia. After they enter the casino, Sabbath tries to defend Tia's honor when a guard insults her, but Tia takes care of it quite effectively on her own. Once they connect with Cradium, Sabbath makes a deal - Cradium agrees to sell Sabbath the drug, as long as Sabbath takes the drug with Cradium before leaving. However, ultimately Sabbath refuses to take the drug with Cradium as agreed. Sabbath uses Force influence to convince Cradium not to fight. Unfortunately, he is left a broken man. On the way out, Tia spreads the rumor that Cradium had a bad trip and lost his mind. They return to Nigita. After a controversial discussion on whether or not the Dark Force drugs should be given to Veeja, Tia turns them over to her. However, the plan is for Znaniye to analyze the sample and evaluate its safety. Later, at the Barcrawl, Tia verbally slaughters Bandit when he asks her for her intentions towards Sabbath.
 
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Turan whispers to Bef'fo "Boss look at these love birds"
 
Tia winks at Bef'fo when Sabbath isn't looking
 
Bef'fo nods as a name comes out of the mind union of the hoomons. "Cradium..." He ponders and begins looking through his records and starts an info search, and puts out some data inquiries, with some data bounties for valuable information. (to resolve later)
 
Lexro gestures to Tia to look at the flower box
 
Tia: "You can take the flowers - I'll deliver the sugar." She picks up the cookie box.
 
Lexro shakes his head and holds out 300 credits. and gestures to the box again and nods at you pleadingly.
 
Turan is eating his cookies while watching Sabbath fail
 
Tia's eyebrow goes up. "Don't worry, masculine men can carry flowers." She pats him reassuringly.
 
Lexro: “Can you smuggle mine too?”
holds out arm so we can walk
 
Sabbath offers an elbow to the lady.....
 
Tia takes it
Sabbath: Bef’fo. Straight up. I only get shot hanging with Bandit and Tao. This is much better.
 
Bef’fo: Grinning smugly to Sabbath, "You need a better class of associates, but I wouldn't quit your day job... just yet."
 
Dr. Turan: well you got messed up yesterday...
 
Sabbath: Working for Bandit, Doc.
 
"It always helps to have interesting friends, Sabbath." Tia again pats Sabbath's arm (she hasn't let go this whole time)
 
“Killing me,”, says Sabbath with a smile.
 
Tia: Another impish wink
 
Sabbath: Was that supposed to be a turn on? I got issues.
 
Bef'fo laughs uproariously from the bleacher seats.
 
Turan joins Bef'fo in the laughing
 
Bef'fo talks into Sabbath's ear through the com, "See, you don't need to have an armed squad at your back to keep the peace."
 
As the guards finally turn around, Tia makes a face at them and sticks her tongue out, then turns and winks at Sabbath
 
Bef'fo nods to his doctor and makes his way towards Tia gives her a com, "We will be along in a moment to discuss the particulars, soften him up, make him uhhh.. in your basic words. 'Buttery'."
Bef'fo slithers his way towards the meet with Sabbath and 'The Doctor', "Ah....." he grins jubiliantly, "Tia.. You reaquainted yourself with your old friend."
Phil's lament04/11/2020
can someone synopsis the last part of what occured, around 12am I had to head out so missed the nonsense past that point
 
Sabbath decided he didn't want to do drugs with the drug dealer, so he started to walk away with the drugs (after quoting Darth Vader - "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further."). Cradium was going to try to express some displeasure about it, but Sabbath used his mind powers to mostly convince him otherwise and Tia sealed the deal with coercion, reminding him that he did get paid a lot of money for the drugs & that he doesn't want Sabbath as an enemy. (Dr. Turan was going to chloroform Cradium, but he went down too quickly for that to happen.) Cradium was a sad broken shell of a man, so disappointed he didn't get to taste the goods. Tia left him some money as an apology to try to salvage any bad feelings he might have towards her, and then on the way out seeded a rumor that Cradium had had a really, really bad trip and lost his mind. We all left without incident.
 
Lexro was passed out at the ship with ladies underthings draped over him. Sabbath explained to Tia that he's actually a good dude trying to do the right thing, and Tia reminded him that keeping one's word is a good thing and told him that next time he should ask to see the goods before closing the deal (and to let her do the talking) to avoid things from being a problem in the first place. (At first, he was all formal, thinking he was going to be in the doghouse, but then when he realized all was well, he turned back into a fawning puppy.)
 
Once the group gets back to the base, Bandit didn't want to give the package over to Veeja because he doesn't trust her with dark side drugs. He wants Znaniye to look it over and render an opinion. The witch was angry, and much debate happened. Ultimately, Tia put a hand on Sabbath's arm and reminded him that the witch was going to use it to save lives so Sabbath gave it to Tia and Tia handed it over to the witch. Then, Sabbath trailed after the witch to keep an eye on things until Znaniye (sp?) could check out the evil drugs.
 
And then Bandit decided it would be a great idea to question Tia about her "intentions" with Sabbath, and basically implied that Sabbath was naive and Tia might be up to no good. That conversation didn't end so well for Bandit.
 
The conversation basically went like this:
Bandit asked Tia what her intentions were towards Sabbath.
Tia said that she didn't think her love life was any business of his.
Bandit said he wanted to make sure that Tia wasn't taking advantage of Sabbath.
Tia got pissed off and asked Bandit if he was calling her a hooker, how dare he, that they'd only just met and was he this rude to everyone without even knowing them.
Bandit said that he wasn't calling her a hooker, but that he was worried Sabbath was naive and that he didn't want him taken advantage of.
Tia berated Bandit for not trusting Sabbath and following him when he's off shift.
Bandit said that he does trust Sabbath, but doesn't trust him not being swayed by being around the hutt.
Tia tells Bandit that he proved her point because he clearly didn't trust Sabbath to stand up for himself, and he should have more faith in his people. Then she tells him that she understands that he's new to this whole leadership thing he's trying to do with the cops, but in general, from her experience she's found that it's best to actually try to empower one's people. And that if Bandit really feels that Sabbath is lacking in some way, the least he could do is actually give him the support and training to improve in those areas instead of just distrusting him and going around behind his back.
That's the point where Bandit basically said "Nevermind" and left.